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Tags are for the Community, not for you

Posted: April 4th, 2006 | Author: Matt Croydon | Filed under: Web Services | 3 Comments »

I’m reminded of this every time I try to retrieve a bookmark from del.icio.us: tags are for the community, not for you.

No really. Every time I go looking for a link from a few months back I search a tag that I *know* I must have tagged it with. A tag that I always tag stuff like that with.

Nine times out of ten I forgot to use that tag, whatever it was. They’re really usless for information retireval. But they sure do help out the community.

3 Comments on “Tags are for the Community, not for you”

  1. 1 XDGRePM3R3 said at 7:43 pm on April 30th, 2006:

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  2. 2 vyvoz stroitelnogo musora said at 9:07 am on February 6th, 2011:

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  3. 3 Ulrike Covey said at 11:47 am on February 16th, 2011:

    This domain seems to recieve a good ammount of visitors. How do you advertise it? It offers a nice individual twist on things. I guess having something authentic or substantial to say is the most important factor.